Portrait of a young Lady
Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova (Kursk 1884 - Paris 1967)
Lot-No. 106
Gouache 24,5 x 19,5 cm, sign. a. dat. lo. ri. Z. Serebriakova 1949, min. paper lesions. - A scientifical analysis of the colours brought no evidence for a date of origin after 1949. - One of the most eminent Russian female artists, daughter of the sculptor Evgenij Lansere, studied at the art school of M.K. Tenisheva in St. Petersburg in 1901, thereafter under I. Repin a. O.E. Braz a. at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris in 1905/06, in 1909 she had her first great success at the 1909 exhibiton of the Union of Russian Artists, in 1911 she joined the artists group Mir Isskustva, in 1924 she moved to Paris to escape financial distress in post-revolutionary Russia where she had late success in 1966 a. was compared to Botticelli a. Renoir. - Lit.: Bown, "Russian a. Sovjet Painters" u.a.
Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova: Portrait of a young Lady
Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova (Kursk 1884 - Paris 1967)
Portrait of a young Lady
Lot-No. 106
Gouache 24,5 x 19,5 cm, sign. a. dat. lo. ri. Z. Serebriakova 1949, min. paper lesions. - A scientifical analysis of the colours brought no evidence for a date of origin after 1949. - One of the most eminent Russian female artists, daughter of the sculptor Evgenij Lansere, studied at the art school of M.K. Tenisheva in St. Petersburg in 1901, thereafter under I. Repin a. O.E. Braz a. at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris in 1905/06, in 1909 she had her first great success at the 1909 exhibiton of the Union of Russian Artists, in 1911 she joined the artists group Mir Isskustva, in 1924 she moved to Paris to escape financial distress in post-revolutionary Russia where she had late success in 1966 a. was compared to Botticelli a. Renoir. - Lit.: Bown, "Russian a. Sovjet Painters" u.a.